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A fine mid 19th-Century French gear-train demonstration model,
unsigned, comprising two small sections of gear wheel, and two larger, almost complete wheels, the purpose of the arrangement unknown. The brass wheels are turned by means of mahogany handle and are held between two brass columns with ball finials, raised on a mahogany base stamped 8 and with a small brass plaque stamped A 54 -- 52cm. (20½in.) high
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unsigned, comprising two small sections of gear wheel, and two larger, almost complete wheels, the purpose of the arrangement unknown. The brass wheels are turned by means of mahogany handle and are held between two brass columns with ball finials, raised on a mahogany base stamped 8 and with a small brass plaque stamped A 54 -- 52cm. (20½in.) high
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